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‘Ravished by Oranges’

Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man

by Jonathan D. Spence


Recreating Picasso

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932

by John Richardson


The Amazing Wanderer

Shadow of the Silk Road

by Colin Thubron


Gold & Geld

“Does its subject’s lush, heavy-lipped, dark-browed, green-eyed face, beneath a black blob of hair and above a silver-encrusted collar, really mesh with the astonishing efflorescence of perspective-free patterns—eyes, spirals, squares, streaks, and splotches, ostensibly related to the wistful sitter’s dress, robe, and armchair?”

Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections

Catalog of the exhibition edited by Renée Price, with contributions by Ronald S. Lauder and others.


In the Pit of Africa

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

by Peter Godwin


The Shadow of Rose

Notebooks

by Tennessee Williams, edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton


Where Wonders Await Us

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

by Claire Nouvian

The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea

by Tony Koslow


Dark Victories

The Roman Triumph

by Mary Beard


The Court: How ‘So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much’

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

by Jeffrey Toobin


The Wand of the Enchanter

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982

edited by Greg Johnson

The Gravedigger's Daughter

by Joyce Carol Oates

The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense

by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006

edited by Greg Johnson


At the Heart of the Terror

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

by Ruth Scurr


At Home in Paradise

Boone: A Biography

by Robert Morgan

Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

by Peter Silver

Daniel Boone: His Own Story

by Daniel Boone

The Life of Daniel Boone

by Lyman C. Draper, edited by Ted Franklin Belue

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

edited by Neal O. Hammon

A Sketch of the Life and Character of Daniel Boone

by Peter Houston, edited by Ted Franklin Belue

The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems

by Robert Morgan

The Mountains Won't Remember Us and Other Stories

by Robert Morgan

The Abstract Wild

by Jack Turner

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Immoral Rearmament

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

by Adam Tooze


From the Other Shore

The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories

by Ellen Litman


Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

by Nathaniel Fick

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

by Evan Wright

House to House: An Epic Memoir of War

by David Bellavia, with John R. Bruning

Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective

by Paul Rieckhoff

Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army

by Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor

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